Colorectal Cancer: A True Story

This is the real story of a rectal cancer patient. It covers the the mental, physical and emotional condition of the patient during diagnosis, treatment and beyond. It gives you detailed information about what you need to learn about the disease viz.screening tests, special tests, treatment - chemotherapy, radiation therapy and its side effects, diet plan, what precautions to be taken to ensure that the doctors treating the patient gives right advice, what they don't tell you and in such a case what needs to be done.

It also gives indepth insight into the patients mental and physical condition, especially in the last few months of his/her life and what goes into the mind during the last couple of days.

This book also emphasis the need for empathy with the patients condition, giving moral support during difficult times and greater need for palliative care, especially after the doctor says that he cannot do anything as he has exhausted everything available at his disposal.

There is also information about alternate therapy, which is being used, especially in some States in the U.S. and elsewhere.